In no time at all, the batch of vampires attacking outside the city was crushed by the Undead Legion, killed or wounded to the last.
And Zhang Yue, with no pressure at all, reached one thousand kills. He completed the Sixth Advancement quest.
He ordered the Undead Legion to stand by outside the city.
Zhang Yue spread his angel wings, flew back to the Job Change Envoy, and submitted the quest.
Whoosh!
Immediately, a burst of golden light flashed.
["Ding~ Congratulations on completing your Sixth Advancement. Maximum level increased to 300 (Seventh Advancement)!"]
["Congratulations, your attribute growth limit has increased; the maximum upgrade cap for skill ranks has been raised to SSSSS!"]
As the system prompts fell, Zhang Yue could clearly feel a surge of power welling up inside him.
Opening his status panel, he saw each attribute visibly climb by a noticeable margin.
Of course, for Zhang Yue, the greatest significance of the Sixth Advancement wasn't the attribute boost, but the skills.
Before this advancement, the highest skill rank was 4S.
Now, the cap had been broken through to 5S.
For more than 99.9999% of professionals in the whole world, this wasn't necessarily good news.
Because when a 4S skill is upgraded to 5S, it means a massive consumption of Energy.
For a single ordinary 4S skill to be raised to 5S, the required Energy is astronomical.
For rare or unique skills, the consumption is even greater.
Generally, most professionals' skill ranks can't keep up with the maximum rank.
That is to say, most professionals at the Sixth Advancement stage have a maximum skill cap of 4S, but in reality their skill ranks still remain at SSS, SS, or even S.
It's precisely because their Energy can't match the consumption, so they can't upgrade skills to the maximum.
Of course, this is the normal situation. It doesn't mean anyone who can't upgrade is lacking.
But relative to Zhang Yue, he had absolutely no such worries.
Opening his status bar.
Remaining Energy total: 125,985 trillion.
Looking further, upgrading a single ordinary 4S skill to 5S needs 15 trillion Energy.
A rare 4S skill to 5S needs 30 trillion.
A unique 4S skill to 5S needs 100 trillion.
In Zhang Yue's skill list, three ordinary skills, six rare skills, and nine unique skills, all currently SSSS rank.
Without a word, he arranged them all, one-click upgrade to 5S.
Checking the total cost: 1,125 trillion Energy.
For Zhang Yue, who had nearly 125,985 trillion Energy, that was less than one percent of his reserves.
Not worth mentioning.
5S was already the highest skill rank in other worlds.
Later, when a professional reached Seventh, Eighth, or Ninth Advancement, they couldn't further increase skill ranks, they could only improve effects based on existing 5S skills.
Checking the power of 5S skills, Zhang Yue found the damage increase was visibly enormous.
An ordinary 4S skill's damage coefficient hovered around 700%; at 5S it leapt to 1000%.
A rare 4S skill hovered around 900%; at 5S it rose to 1200%.
Unique skills rose from 1200% to 1800%.
For Zhang Yue, whose skill list contained half unique skills and a large portion of rare skills, this wave of upgrades was a cataclysmic, world-shattering increase.
Zhang Yue couldn't wait to try out the power of a Sixth-Advancement Necromancer.
He was just about to leave the city to meet Chen Zijin and continue hunting vampires to complete the Forty-Sixth World's tasks, When suddenly Zhang Yue received a private message from Ouyang Ling'er, ["President, there's one bad piece of news and another bad piece of news… which bad piece of news do you want to hear first?"]
Zhang Yue thought for a moment and said, ["Tell me the first bad piece of news."]
Ouyang Ling'er seemed a bit reluctant to say it.
After stewing for a long time and mustering up courage, she said, ["The mythic-grade treasure I had you put in the Guild Warehouse, plus the Infinite Growth Set and the Forbidden Curse skill, those three things were stolen…"]
Zhang Yue: ["The Desire Source Stone, the Desire God Set, and the Desire Flames That Burn the Heavens?"]
Because back then Zhang Yue had entrusted these items to Ouyang Ling'er to handle, telling her to put them in the Guild Warehouse.
As the person responsible for those three items, Ouyang Ling'er, fearing Zhang Yue's blame, quickly added before he could speak, ["But President, don't worry, I will do everything I can to catch the thief as fast as possible and recover those three items!"]
["Wait a moment."]
Zhang Yue thought for a bit and stopped Ouyang Ling'er, ["Don't investigate."]
["No… don't investigate? Why?"], Ouyang Ling'er was stunned, ["Those are mythic-grade treasures, a forbidden curse skill, and the Infinite Growth Set… each worth a fortune!"]
Zhang Yue was unconcerned.
["Items are priceless only in the hands of someone who can use them; otherwise they're just a pile of scrap metal."]
After a pause, Zhang Yue asked Ouyang Ling'er, ["How did you set the Guild Warehouse opening permissions?"]
["All members belonging to Heavens Hall Guild with level-three permission or above have rights to open it; those below level three can request a level-three-or-above member to apply to open it…"], Ouyang Ling'er explained, ["At first, the Guild Warehouse permission was only open to level-one permission holders, that is, the President + Vice President. But last time you asked me to let all guild members try the Desire Source Stone, so to make it convenient for people to try it, I lowered the permissions a bit…"]
["But we only have 128 people in the guild with level-three-or-above permission. If I checked, I could easily find out who did it!"]
["Don't check,"] Zhang Yue cut Ouyang Ling'er off, ["Leave it as it is."]
Although Ouyang Ling'er had ten thousand questions about Zhang Yue's order, she could only obey, ["Alright…"]
Zhang Yue had clearly read Ouyang Ling'er's mind, ["If you find out, don't tell me."]
Ouyang Ling'er stuck out her tongue, ["I wouldn't secretly check anyway, the President's order is an imperial edict, I wouldn't dare disobey!"]
Although she said that, after sending that message she immediately opened her computer and started the inquiry.
As expected: for computer genius Ouyang Ling'er, this was an easy task.
So she hadn't reported first because she thought it necessary to tell Zhang Yue, as guild president, about this matter first.
But when she saw who the real "thief" of the three-piece Desire Source Stone set was, she opened her mouth and widened her eyes in disbelief.
"Th… how could it be…"
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